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CWmike writes "Ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer's day and thought that it simply couldn't get any better? Well, think again. A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working on helping Joe Six Pack fight aging and cancer with every swill of beer." Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness.

Guinness is more than that. It's the beer that all other Irish stouts are compared against. Sure there are always better examples of the style out there, but there are also a lot that are worse. As for the home brew thing, I've had a lot of really terrible home brew.

That's a great example of an obsolete joke. It was funny in the 1970s, because it was true. Nowdays it makes you go "huh?" instead of laugh, because it doesn't make any sense. When you sip on some of those west coast IPAs or barleywines, you sometimes wonder if there's any water in it at all. "Geez, did they just put some malt and hops into a hydraulic press?"

Some say it was because of Carter repealing the homebrew prohibition in 1978, but I think America went from one of the worst countries for beer to one of the best, because of that joke. It was just too damn embarrassing and our national prestige was at stake. It's like the Monty Python guys accused us all of having small penises or something, but instead of going out and buying a big truck or fast sportscar, we bought a bigger penis.

But anyway, anyone who doesn't realize how hopelessly obsolete the joke is, needs to try some American beer again. It's been 30 years: go ahead and have a second sip.

Even if heat didn't break it down, yeast in bread does not have a lot of time to produce reservatrol. There's also not a lot of free sugar in bread for the yeast to eat. So you're probably not going to get much reservatrol out of bread even before it breaks down from the heat.